on 5/23/02 4:03 PM, Ken Waxman at mingusaum@yahoo.ca wrote:
And far be it from me to restrict *any* musician from playing with *any other* musician. It's just that Satoko seemed uncomfortable matching nonsense syllables with Tatsuya.
This is quite a subjective evaluation, with which I am in complete disagreement. Remember, that the unison "nonsense syllables" (maybe only nonsense to the non-Japanese speakers among us, of which I am one) is what they opened the performance with. The performance seemed to be pretty much worked out (and if it wasn't, then that stop-time stuff that they did a lot of speaks volumes about Yoshida's ability). If so, I believe that Fujii was quite comfortable with all that went on--and she seemed quite happy with the performance when I spoke to her about it the next morning.
--Mike